I wonder what you would get if you modelled the hippocampus of someone with "photographic" memory in silicon and transplanted it into someone else? The first "killer app" for wetware?
Sorry, Myriad...I just suffered a setback on my road to recovery and a pun-free life. I'll contact my sponsor immediately.
-- Horse_Pheathers, hanging his head slowly and doffing his jaunty jester's cap in shame, taking care to stifle the merry bells on the pointy bits.....
Carbon 14 is good for dating organic matter up to around 40000 years old...
But there are other means of dating on a geological time scale. Forinstance, when certain minerals are melted and then cooled, they form with a crystalline structure aligned to the earth's magnetic field. By taking into account shifts in the alignment, the known rate of continental drift, comparisons to other nearby rock layers, etc, you can get a pretty good idea when those rocks initially cooled.
Also, you can use radioactive elements with longer half lives than carbon-14 to date rocks, by comparing the ratio of that element to its decay products within the rock. This is what most often gets confused with radio-carbon dating, due to both techniques' reliance on radioactive isotopes.
And don't forget just looking at the rock strata....
-- Horse_Pheathers
Cue up the banjoes, boys. "The Beverly Hillbillies", if ya please.
o/~ Ooooooo...lemme tell a story 'bout a group called SCO, they was havin' them some difficulty rakin' in the dough. They was lookin' at th'marketplace, decidin' what to do when they saw this li'l penguin an they figgered they would sue....
Big Blue that is. IBM. Deeeep pockets. Moola moooola....
So they filed them a lawsuit a couple billion deep allegin' Blue had fed that bird through source code feature creep. Blue an' Penguin shook their heads, an' marvelled at this feat, sayin' "Not our faults you silly gits ain't able to compete..."
Squeezed by th'market. Billy Gates on one side, Torvaldes on t'other....squisha squish, yeah.
Maybe they're just out to make it easier to implement the DoD's "Total Information Awareness" thingy. Y'know, get the public to do most of the work for 'em by putting all their relevent data into one convenient, easy-to-parse-and-mine linked database.
-- Horse_Pheathers, really looking forward to the day when some government drone can not only easily find out where I work, but by perusing my credit records know how often I buy condoms. "Nice sex life you have there Mr. Pheathers..."
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I wonder what you would get if you modelled the hippocampus of someone with "photographic" memory in silicon and transplanted it into someone else? The first "killer app" for wetware?
--Horse_pheathers
Sorry, Myriad...I just suffered a setback on my road to recovery and a pun-free life. I'll contact my sponsor immediately.
-- Horse_Pheathers, hanging his head slowly and doffing his jaunty jester's cap in shame, taking care to stifle the merry bells on the pointy bits.....
And the second pun goes over yours....;)
-- Horse_Pheathers
I can see the headline now:
"Model Rocketry Enthusiasts' Hobby Goes Up in Smoke...."
I'll bet that pun goes over some people's heads.....
-- Horse_Pheathers
Pity for the dinosaurs they didn't have Bruce Willis and his deep core drilling team around to save 'em from the killer asteroid.....
-- Horse_Pheathers
Carbon 14 is good for dating organic matter up to around 40000 years old... But there are other means of dating on a geological time scale. Forinstance, when certain minerals are melted and then cooled, they form with a crystalline structure aligned to the earth's magnetic field. By taking into account shifts in the alignment, the known rate of continental drift, comparisons to other nearby rock layers, etc, you can get a pretty good idea when those rocks initially cooled. Also, you can use radioactive elements with longer half lives than carbon-14 to date rocks, by comparing the ratio of that element to its decay products within the rock. This is what most often gets confused with radio-carbon dating, due to both techniques' reliance on radioactive isotopes. And don't forget just looking at the rock strata.... -- Horse_Pheathers
What can I say...I have a passion for funny-shaped water balloons? *innocent look* -- Horse_Pheathers
Cue up the banjoes, boys. "The Beverly Hillbillies", if ya please.
o/~ Ooooooo...lemme tell a story 'bout a group called SCO,
they was havin' them some difficulty rakin' in the dough.
They was lookin' at th'marketplace, decidin' what to do
when they saw this li'l penguin an they figgered they would sue....
Big Blue that is. IBM. Deeeep pockets. Moola moooola....
So they filed them a lawsuit a couple billion deep
allegin' Blue had fed that bird through source code feature creep.
Blue an' Penguin shook their heads, an' marvelled at this feat,
sayin' "Not our faults you silly gits ain't able to compete..."
Squeezed by th'market. Billy Gates on one side, Torvaldes on t'other....squisha squish, yeah.
o/~
-- Horse_Pheathers
Maybe they're just out to make it easier to implement the DoD's "Total Information Awareness" thingy. Y'know, get the public to do most of the work for 'em by putting all their relevent data into one convenient, easy-to-parse-and-mine linked database.
-- Horse_Pheathers, really looking forward to the day when some government drone can not only easily find out where I work, but by perusing my credit records know how often I buy condoms. "Nice sex life you have there Mr. Pheathers..."